St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-16
FOOTBALL AT THE FAIR.
A Drawn Game Between st. PanI
and Minneapolis.

and Minneapolis.
Yesterday morning a friendly game of
football was played OH the Fair grounds
between the Minneapolis Thistles and
the st. Paul club. Capt. Nc
Culloch, of the st. Paul team,
won the toss, and Minneapolis
set the ball rolling at IL a. IN. After
little giye-and-take play st. Paul man.
aged To work the ball well up towards
its opponents goal, and from pretty
goal of the game, about five min
utes after the start. AT this time
it appeared as if the team from the
Sanity city would prove too much for
the MINNEAPOLIS men, as they showed
up in good form and were working well
together, the passing of the forwards
being very effective, but, although
they made many dangerous at
tempts at goal, they were unsuccess-
ful owing to the strong defense of the
Minneapolis backs and goalkeeper and
when half time was called, the game
stood to in favor OF st. Paul. The
teams now changed ends and the leather
was once more set in motion. The
Thistles, although playing stubbornly
and taking occasional runs into close
proximity to the st. Paul goal, were
playing for the greater part of the game
on the defensive and were unable to
keep tn eball for any length of time in
st. Paul territory. About the middle of
the second half, after a smart ran,
Archie Gray sent the ball through the
goal for tie Thistles, and this equalIzed
matters. Although some foot play was
INDUCED in no further scoring took
place and the game therefore ended i'm
Franz <. Koempel at goal put in
s0mepleudid work, and at times sa we'd
his tress very cleverly. Pollock on
left wing and McKechnie at the back
also distinguished themselves, while
Archie Gray, Anderson and Rowat
worked admirably for the Thistles. The
teams were as follows:
Thistles-Goal, w. Marchbank; backs, j.
Emslie and j. Sowat; half-backs, II. March
Gray, FL. Phillips and g. Anderson. captain.
st. Paui-Goal, Frank y. Koempel; backs,
A. A.: McKechnie, w. Pringle; half backs,
5. l.. Titus, II. Greenwood and W. Koempel;
forwards, W. Pollock, A, Brube A. McCul-
loch, r. Hutchinson and James b. Darling.
At the close of this game team from
Sioux Falls, OAK, arrived for the pur-
pose of playing st. Paul, and as no ar
engagements could be made for further
use of the grounds the two clubs pro-
ceeded to Minneapolis and faced
each other on the ground of
the Thistles at 8 D. IN. From
the start it was evident that the local
team was too strong for the DakotanS.
who are but recently organized and
lack practice. Shortly after the kick
off st. Paul scored from kick by An
dersOn, and later Pollock, Darling,
Hutchinson and Titus added one each,
while the visitors only secured one goal.
The game thus ended in victory for
st. Paul by five goals to one. For Sioux
Falls, Mcdonald. McLaren and Williams
played brilliantly, as also did A. Bruce
and X. Hutchinson for st. Paul. The
teams were as follows:
Sioux Falls-Goal, Tom Vernon,
Backs, Oliver Slingsby and William
Murray. Half hacks, Sam Cook, George
KEN, (captain William Harper. For
Laren, John Burns, Walter Williams
and Alfred WakeliEg.
Sioux Falls-Goal, Tom Vernon. Backs,
Oliver Slingsby..and William. Half backs, Sam
COOK, George Keir (captain) WilliamM Murray.
Harper. Forwards, John Mcdonald, James
Mel.arsn, John Burns Walter. Williams and
Alfred Wakeling.
st. Paul-Goal, W. Marchbank; backs, W.
Pringle, A. Rowat; half-backs, Sam Hastings.
w. Pollock and S. l.. Titus: forwards. George
Anderson, A. Bruce, A. McCulloch (captain).
X. Hutchinson and James B. Darling; referee,
W. III. Koempel.
The Sioux Falls team left for home on
the 1855 p. m. train, evidently highly
pleased with their visit. 1t is expected
that in the near future the st. Paul
team will return the visit, when it will
probably meet stronger OnOOSitinu